we're buying a house that is on a slab. We heard that slabs have a lot of problems like with plumbing and pipes. What are your opinions about slabs.
2007-01-08 05:06:49 · 2 answers · asked by Bdazzeling 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
I have always lived in a house built on a slab. I "never" had any problems with any type of plumbing. There is the problem of the ground shrinking during severe drought and cracking the slab. Other that that, I have not heard of any problems.
2007-01-08 05:23:07 · answer #1 · answered by bugear001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Houses on concrete slabs are great and I bet 95% of the homes and business in the Southwest are built that way. A very important aspect of being on a pad is that the concrete pad/slab be constructed with post tension. Post construction tension is steel bars that run across the pad. The bars are tightened or stretched, concrete placed, concrete cured, and the then the tension is let off. But because the rods are now held by the cured concrete, the rods compress the concrete and the chance of the pad cracking is greatly reduced. This has become a great improvement as so many pads/slabs cracked in a big way. And we are talking huge cracks.
2007-01-08 05:18:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋